As I really do not have anything better to do at the moment, I have written
a patch to Python/marshal.c that prevents Python dumping core when trying
to marshal stack bustingly deep (or recursive) data structure.
It just throws an exception; even slightly clever handling of recursive
data is what pickle is for...
[Fred Drake:] Moved magic constant 5000 to a #define.
This closes SourceForge patch #100645.
Testing: test_array.py was also extended to check that one can set the
full range of values for each of the integral signed and unsigned
array types.
This closes SourceForge patch #100506.
The cause: Relatively recent (last month) patches to getargs.c added
overflow checking to the PyArg_Parse*() integral formatters thereby
restricting 'b' to unsigned char value and 'h','i', and 'l' to signed
integral values (i.e. if the incoming value is outside of the
specified bounds you get an OverflowError, previous it silently
overflowed).
The problem: This broke the array module (as Fredrik pointed out)
because *its* formatters relied on the loose allowance of signed and
unsigned ranges being able to pass through PyArg_Parse*()'s
formatters.
The fix: This patch fixes the array module to work with the more
strict bounds checking now in PyArg_Parse*().
How: If the type signature of a formatter in the arraymodule exactly
matches one in PyArg_Parse*(), then use that directly. If there is no
equivalent type signature in PyArg_Parse*() (e.g. there is no unsigned
int formatter in PyArg_Parse*()), then use the next one up and do some
extra bounds checking in the array module.
This partially closes SourceForge patch #100506.
Perfect hash table generator. Outputs a Python extension module
which provides access to the hash table (which is stored in static
C data) using custom code.
This module can currently only generates code for the ucnhash
module, but can easily be adapted to produce perfect hash tables
for other tasks where fast lookup in large tables is needed.
By Bill Tutt.
This patch adds the openpty() and forkpty() library calls to posixmodule.c,
when they are available on the target
system. (glibc-2.1-based Linux systems, FreeBSD and BSDI at least, probably
the other BSD-based systems as well.)
Lib/pty.py is also rewritten to use openpty when available, but falls
back to the old SGI method or the "manual" BSD open-a-pty
code. Openpty() is necessary to use the Unix98 ptys under Linux 2.2,
or when using non-standard tty names under (at least) BSDI, which is
why I needed it, myself ;-) forkpty() is included for symmetry.
New ucnhash module by Bill Tutt. This module contains the hash
table needed to map Unicode character names to Unicode ordinals
and is loaded on-the-fly by the standard unicode-escape codec.
<skip@mojam.com>. Revisions to the markup to make it pass LaTeX, added
an index entry and a reference from the sys.exitfunc documentation.
This closes SourceForge patch #100620.
methods (but not 'link_executable()', hmmm). Currently only used by
BCPPCompiler; it's a dummy parameter for UnixCCompiler and MSVCCompiler.
Also added 'bcpp' to compiler table used by 'new_compiler()'.
Two major points:
* lots of overlap with MSVCCompiler; the common code really should be
factored out into a base class, say WindowsCCompiler
* it doesn't work: weird problem spawning the linker (see comment for
details)
Fred Drake
Marc-André Lemburg
Jeremy Hylton
Andrew M. Kuchling
Greg Ward
Greg Stein